Save the Green Planet (2003) [Re-UP]

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Date: May 20, 2015

Save the Green Planet (2003)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:56:40 | 6,63 Gb
Audio: Korean DTS/AC3 5.0/5.1/2.0 @ 755/384/256 Kbps + Korean Commentary track
Subtitles: English, Japanese, Korean
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Stars: Ha-kyun Shin, Yun-shik Baek, Jeong-min Hwang

A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with a long-ago history of super-crime solving. The alienated South Korean youngster Lee Byeong-gu builds an isolated basement command post/torture chamber/film studio to force the awful truth out of the slimy, uncooperative politicians and businesspeople, then alert the public. Byeong-gu is helped by his devoted girlfriend, who buys his theories, but wonders if his horrible childhood has colored his thinking.

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I first heard about ”Save the Green Planet” at the IFFR back in 2004, when everyone who was anyone (and anyone else) was talking about it, and it ran sold out during each screening. So what could be so special about some odd looking Korean science-fiction, kung-fu, action flick?


The answer is, that it is one incredible entertaining film. It starts out with a “Se7en” influenced title sequence, then Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-Kyun) standing and telling his not-so-smart girlfriend about how Kang Man-shik (Baek Yun-shik), the CEO of a chemical corporation, in reality is from Andromeda and that unless he does what he has to do, the world will end in seven days, wearing a gizmorized miners helmet and a black garbage bag as protection. And hardly has he kidnapped Kang, before he beats up a bully in almost Matrix like kung-fu. And while he is putting Kang thru some tests, a out-of-his-luck detective is investigating the disappearance of the important CEO.


Homaging films like “Silence of the Lambs”, “2001” (in a way one has to see to believe) and many many others, “Save the Green Planet” is a born cult classic. The conspiracy theory is so far out, that even Mulder from “X-Files” would question the sanity of Lee, and its numerous references to other films, its humour, its violence and its surprise ending, has to be seen. But it is also one great story, often very emotional and intimate, for instance thru Lee’s girlfriend and thru the scenes with Lee’s mother, and actually also quiet profound and thought provoking.


Directed with utter confidence by first time director Jeong Jun-hwan, who previously had written the political thriller “Phantom”, “Save the Green Planet” is one of the best and most refreshing films to come from South Korea in a long time. It is so incredible not like anything else, that it just is an instant cult classic.
Henrik Sylow, dvdbeaver

Save the Green Planet is a truly bizarre film from Korea. It could equally well be classified as a black comedy, an SF movie or an exploitation horror.

The story concerns a young man, Lee Byeong-gu, who has discovered that aliens from Andromeda have infiltrated the Earth in human form. At the next lunar eclipse they intend to invade and take over the planet. To save the Earth Lee dons his ridiculous anti-telepathy helmet and proceeds to kidnap and interrogate the alien leader. Since this alien is - in human form - head of a large corporation and son-in-law of the local police chief there are a lot of people trying to find him. These include an unorthodox ex-cop detective Chu, played wonderfully by Jae-yong Lee.


Lee's "interrogation" methods take advantage of what he’s learned of alien physiology and weaknesses in various unpleasant ways. Meanwhile his gentle wife plays with her dolls in the same room. The weirdness is intensified further by the use of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" as a theme tune. The question, of course, is whether Lee really has discovered an alien plot or whether he’s simply a nutter. It soon becomes clear that he is very much a nutter, a junkie with a tragic past and a talent for torturing people.


One of the problems with many torture based exploitation movies is the lack of any significant plot to justify the action - a bit like those old seventies porn movies (or so I'm told). Save the Green Planet avoids that with a really good story that’s interesting in terms of both plot and character. The torture elements are essential to the narrative but not the centre of it - if you’re looking for a Korean version of Hostel you won’t find it here. This is a nasty film - a very nasty film - but the violence is appropriate in context and relatively little blood is actually shown on screen.


What we get is a huge amount of suspense, especially the cat and mouse games between Lee and Chu. These are often punctuated by really funny moments. Joon-Hwan Jang's direction is excellent at capturing all the different moods, often one right after the other. The plot constantly twists and turns, veering in different directions as the story progresses. Unfortunately the ending is a slight disappointment as one twist too many ends up detracting from rather than adding to the overall effect.


For all the humour this is ultimately a dark and depressing film about how life can go so badly wrong. The end credits sequence is especially bleak.
Save The Green Planet is a great film that will give you surprises, shudders and plenty of giggles along the way. It won't be to everyone's tastes but if you're prepared to experiment with the unconventional then give it a swing.
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